Pesticides : health, safety and the environment /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Matthews, G. A. (Συγγραφέας)
• Μορφή: Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2015.
• Έκδοση: Second edition.
• Θέματα: Pesticides.; Pesticides > Environmental aspects.; Pesticides > Health aspects.; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Environmental > General.; Electronic books.

Crop protection continues to be an important component of modern farming to maintain food production to feed an expanding human population, but considerable changes have occurred in the regulation of pesticides in Europe in the last decade. The aim has been to reduce their impact on people and the e...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Pesticides and agricultural development
• Approval of pesticides
• Application of pesticides
• Operator exposure
• Spray drift, bystander, resident and worker exposure
• Environmental aspects of spray drift
• Residues in food
• The future of pesticides.